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BICESTER.

OXFORDSHIRE.

[ k e l l y ’s

Poole George W. tailor, 6 Market square
Tanner Edward Foster, solicitor& commissioner fornaiR
Prentice Albert Edward, coal merchant, 16 Church st
clerk to the burial board (U.D.C.) & clerk & collect8’
Prentice John Vincent, farmer, 20 Church street
to the Urban District Council, 4 Market square
Prentice Thomas George, boot dealer, 42 & 44 Sheep st. Timms Edwin, superintendent of police, Church street
& baker, 2 North street
Tims & Co. (Oxford) Ltd. leather merchants, Marketnl
Prentice William Arthur, cattle dealer, 47 Sheep street Tompkins Agnes A. (Mrs.), saddler, 15 Sheep street
Pritchett Henry, corn chandler, 94 Sheep street
Townsend William, coach builder, 26 Church street
Ricks Edward C. head gardener to C. T. Hoare esq. Truman Alfred Tom, solicitor, clerk to the magistrate
Bignell
for Ploughley division, to the commissioners of taxes*
Rose Walter, butcher, 48 Market square
the guardians & assessment committee of Bicester
St. Edburg's Hall (Rev. W. O’Reilly M.A. hon. sec)
union, to Bicester Rural District Council, to hospital
St. Edith's Priory (Sister M. Agnes, lady superior)
committee, to the Bicester & Deddington District
Scarrott Charles, hardware dealer, 79 Sheep street
Education Committees & to the Old Age Pension SubScivyer Charles Ernest, boot maker, 46 Market square
Committee, Sheep street
Scrivener Matilda (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 81 Sheep street Tubb & Co. bankers, Market square; draw on London
Scrivener Thomas Arthur, tailor, 31 Market square
County & Westminster Bank Limited, London E C
Shillingford Thomas, boot & shoe repairer, 19 North st Turner Edward Thomas, insurance agent, The Ferns
Buckingham road
Sirett & Waine, blacksmiths, 25 Market square
Smith Thomas & Son, plumbers, 15 & 17 North street United District Gas Co. Limited (H. Wilcox, manager)
23 Market square
Smith Edmund, shopkeeper, 9 & 11 Church street
Smith Edward Henry, baker, 14 Church street
Wade Philip, market gardener, The Violets, Bucking­
Smith George, general dealer. Banbury road
ham road
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Smith James, naturalist, 25 Field street
Waine H. H. blacksmith, see Sirett & Waine
Smith Mary Ann (Mrs.), apartments, 21 Priory road
Walduck Arthur William, Bell inn, 84 Sheep street
Smith Sarah Ann (Mrs.), farmer, 9 King’s End
Walker & Bard, tailors, 47 Market square
Smith Sydney Frederick, fishmonger, 7 Sheep street
Ward, Son & Co. cycle dealers, 34 Market square
Smith Wm. Edmund, confr. 23 Sheep st. & 5 Causeway Ward William Henry, collectorof assessedtaxes& deputy
Smith Wm. T. coal dealer, Station yard (L. & N. W. R)
registrar of births, deaths & marriages, Bicester subdistrict, 92 Sheep street
Spencer John, boot & shoe maker, 11 Causeway
Stamp Office (C. Rawbone, distributor),Post off.Sheep st Webb Ezra, White Hart P.H. 3 Sheep street
Stanford Thomas, greengrocer, 17 Sheep street
Webb Helena A. (Miss), basket chair maker. Market sq
Stevens fc Sons, tailors, 31 Market square
Wells Henry, firewood dealer, Caversfield road
Stevens Joseph Thomas, butcher, 86 Sheep street
Wesley Hall (Edward R. Lane, treasurer), Sheep street
Stockley Elizabeth (Mrs.), yeast dealer, 6 Church street White Albert, insurance agent, 11 Bath terrace
Stockley Frederick, confectioner, 8 London road
Williams & Co. cycle agents, Market square
Stockley John, carpenter, 3 King’s End
Woodley Edward C. assistant superintendent Prudential
Stockley Sydney, hair dresser, 30 Sheep street
Assurance Co. Limited, Buckingham road
Stuchfield John, saddler, 24 Market square
Wright Ernest, inland revenue officer, 40 London road
Sutton & Co. carriers (Edward R. Lane, agt.), Sheep st Wyman & Sons Limited, news agents, G. W. R. & L. &
Swell Stephen Henry, Red Lion P.H. Market square
N. W. R. stations
BINSEY, anciently called “Thornbury,” is a parish cylindrical basin, supported on round moulded shafts
and small village on the borders of Berks, within the and plain blocks of stone, resting on a square base:
county borough of Oxford, 1 mile north-west from near the west end of the church is St. Margaret’swell,
Oxford and is about i£ miles in length and three- granted, it is said, to the prayer and by the virtue of
quarters of a mile in breadth, lying on the western side St. Frideswide: there are 60 sittings. The register
of Port Meadow, from which it is divided by the river; dates from the year 1593. The living is a vicarage, net
the land on both sides of the river lies very low and yearly value £68, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter
in rainy seasons is often flooded; it is in the Mid of Christ Church, and held since 1911 by the Rev.
division of the county, hundred of Wootton, petty Charles Abel Heurtley M.A. of Oriel College, Oxford,
sessional division of Bullingdon, county court district of who resides at 193 Woodstock road, Oxford. The Dean
Oxford, union of Abingdon, rural deanery, archdeaconry and Chapter of Christ Church, Oxford, are lords ofthe
and diocese of Oxford. The church of St. Margaret, manor and the principal landowners. The soilisgravel;
situated about a quarter of a mile north-west of the subsoil, gravel. The chief crops are wheat and barley;
village, is an ancient building of stone in mixed styles, grass land. The area is 411 acres of land and 14 of
portions of it being probably earlier than the Conquest, water; rateable value, £856; population in 1911, 58.
and consists of chancel, nave, south porch and a gable
Parish Clerk, Alfred Mobey.
befl-cot at the east end of the nave, containing 2 hells: Letters from Oxford, which is the nearest money order
the church is about 45 feet long by 18 broad, and has a office, arrive at 8.45 a.m. & 5 p.m
Transitional nave with a good south doorway adornedwith Wall Letter Box, cleared at 9 a.m. & 5.15 p.m.;
S u n d a ys, 9.30 a .m
zig-zae: and dog-tooth moulding: the chancel is Early
English, and retains a piscina and a niche; on the T h e c h ild r e n of t h is p a ris h a tte n d the schools at
south side is a blocked low-side window: the font is a Oxford
iPrickett James, carpenter
Taylor Arthur Hv.M.A. Medley manor 1Goatley George, P rch inn
lSkelcher&Sons,dairy frmrs.Manor fm
Brown Gilbert, overseer
|Mobey Alfred, pai sh clerk
BIX (formerly two parishes bearing the names of A charity of £500, left by the children of a former rec­
Byxbrand and Byxgwybyn, but now united into one) tor, the Rev. Horace Robert Pechell M.A. (1822-72),
is a parish and straggling village, 3 miles north-west amounts to £13 yearly. William Dalziel Mackenzieesq.
from Henley-on-Thames terminal station on a branch of Fawley Court, Bucks, who is lord of the manor,
of the Great Western Railway, 8 south-east from Wal­ Sir Miles Talbot Stapleton bart. and Robert Fleming
lingford and xi north-east from Reading, in the esq. J.P. are the principal landowners. The soil is
Southern division of the county, hundred of Binfield, chalk and gravel; subsoil, chalk. The chief crops are
petty sessional division of Henley, union and county wheat, barley, oats, turnips &c. The area is 3,07
court districtof Henley, rural deanery ofHenley and arch­ acres; rateable value, £2,251; the population in 19»
deaconry and diocese of Oxford; it consists of a few was 418 in the civil and 385 in the ecclesiastical pans .
houses along the high road from Henley to Oxford, on MIDDLEAND LOWER ASSENDEN now form a
the borders of Bucks. The church of St. Michael, civil parish, constituted by the working of the ‘"oca
Byxgwybyn, has been long demolished. The old church Government Act, 1894,” and called Badgemore. Upp
of St. James (Bixbrand), the walls of which now alone Assendon is in Pyrton parish.
remain, stands in a field about a mile from the village: Parish Clerk, William Clark.
the new church of St. James, on Bix Common, is aD
t Office.— M rs. Charlotte Elizabeth Young, “ '’•Pjjt
edifice of flint with stone dressings, erected in 1875 at Pos
mistress. Letters through Henley-on-Thames ar
a cost of about £4,000, defrayed by the Earl of at 6.35 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; dispatched at 6.20 ® 1 ■
Macclesfield, and was consecrated and opened in
a.m. & 6.30 p.m. ; sundays, arrive at 6-5° - 7
September, 1875 ; it consists of chancel, nave, transept, d
ched at 11.50 p.m. Nettlebed, 2 mde8 1S‘
north aisle,south porch and a belfrycontaining 2 hells: isistpat
he nearest money order & telegraph office
in 1906 a new organ was provided at a cost of £215 :
there are 135 sittings. The register dates from theyear Wall Letter Box, Middle Assenden, cleared at 8.30»■®’
& 2.30 & 7 p.m. ; Sundays, 11.35 p.m
. „
1577. The living is a rectory, net income £375, with 20
acre9 of glebe and residence, in the gift of the Earl of Elementary School, built in 1878, enlarged 18 •
children ; Miss M. Sims, mistress
Macclesfield, and held since 1911 by the Rev. Charles
Wykeham Formby M.A. of Keble College, Oxford. Carrier to Henley.— George Light, daily